Thursday, June 23, 2005

Guinea-Bissau

Learned something new today. Learned about a country in western Africa called Guinea-Bissau. One of the smallest countries in Africa. It is bordered by Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south.

The name was new to me, but the story behind it was a familiar sad one. One of brutal colonization (by the Portuguese), slavery, prolonged independence struggle, independence, corruption, military coup, civil war, ethnic tensions, poverty and huge international debt.